Isabella Arasova

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Isabella Arasowa ( Armenian Իզաբելլա Կոնստանտինի Արազովա , Isabella Konstantini Arasowa ; also Իզաբելլա Արազյան, Izabella Arazian ; Russian Изабелла Константиновна Аразова , Isabella Konstantinovna Arasowa , scientific. Transliteration Izabella Konstantinovna Arazova * 25. September 1936 in Rostov-on-Don , Soviet Union ) is an Armenian Composer .

Life

Isabella Arasova grew up in Rostov-on-Don, an important center of the Armenian diaspora. Her family moved to Yerevan in 1942 . Isabella Arasowa attended the Melikjan School of Music there from 1955 to 1958 . She then studied from 1961 to 1963 at the Leningrad Conservatory composition with the Shostakovich -Students Orest Jewlachow . In 1964 she continued her studies at the Yerevan State Conservatory with Eduard Mirsojan and graduated in 1967. In the same year she was accepted into the Armenian Composers Association. In 1967 she also began teaching, u. a. Until 1990 she taught orchestration , composition , harmony and solfeggio at various music schools and at the State Pedagogical University " Chatschatur Abovjan " in Yerevan. In the 2011 members 'report of the composers' association Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica , a member organization of the International Music Council , she is listed as a representative of Armenia.

Create

Arasowa wrote orchestral, choral, vocal, chamber and piano music. As a composer, she began appearing in 1966, when works by her were performed for the first time at the Festival for Young Composers in Yerevan. In her early works, such as the Concerto for Orchestra from 1967, she worked with strong contrasts of different timbres . In the next 30 years of her work she developed a system of opposites, paired with melodic and rhythmic ingenuity. Experts certify that her chamber music is extremely expressive, and her vocal music has an intense lyrical quality. Stylistically, she combines classical polyphony with contemporary compositional methods, u. a. she uses aleatoric , cluster technique and free tonality in her works . In her orchestral work Prayer (1996) there are psalm-modifying passages, at the end these culminate in a sound cluster, the tone structure of which symbolizes a cross . Also improvisation plays a big role in her oeuvre. Isabella Arasowa's works have been performed in Armenia, Russia , Estonia and Ukraine , but also in the USA , Japan , France and Switzerland .

Works (selection)

  • Three preludes for piano, 1958
  • Two preludes for piano, 1960
  • Sonatina for piano, 1960
  • Variations for cello, 1961
  • Fantasia for 2 pianos, 1964
  • String Quartet No. 1 , 1965
  • Three pictures for piano, 1966
  • Polyphonic Choruses (Text: Silwa Kaputikjan ), 1966
  • Concerto for orchestra , 1967
  • 6 Allegories (V. Grigoryan) for voice and piano, 1969
  • Elegy for cello and piano, 1969
  • Triptych , symphony (text: Silwa Kaputikjan), choir and orchestra, 1972
  • 3 yaponskikh stikhotvoreniy ( 3 Japanese poems from the Middle Ages ) for voice and piano, 1979
  • 5 retrospectives for piano, 1983
  • Sonata No. 1 for cello, 1983
  • Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano, 1984
  • Perpetuum mobile for cello and piano, 1985
  • Sonata for piano 1985
  • Sonata No. 3 , Sonata-Mystery for cello and piano, 1987
  • The World is Just a Dream (Japanese Poems from the Middle Ages), voice and piano, 1988
  • Sonata for violin and piano, 1991
  • String Quartet No. 2 , 1991
  • Quattro for 4 cellos, 1995
  • Prayer for orchestra, 1996

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annotation

  1. ↑ Arasowa is also the common form of the surname in Armenian sources.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Svetlana Sarkisyan:  Arazova [Arazian], Izabella Konstantinovna. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ↑ Isabella Konstantini Arasowa on: composers.am (Armenian)
  3. ↑ a b Arasowa, Isabella Konstantinowna in: Bolschaja Biografitscheskaja Enziklopedija 2009 (Russian)
  4. ↑ Arasowa, Isabella Konstantinowna on: ru.hayazg.info (Russian)
  5. ↑ International Music Council , Biennial Membership Report, Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica 2010–2011
  6. ^ A b Svetlana Sarkisyan: Arazova (Arazian), Izabella Konstantinovna. In: Opera. El Mundo de la ópera. Music Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on August 20, 2011 ; accessed on November 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Arasova, Isabella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arasowa, Isabella Konstantini (full name); Իզաբելլա Կոնստանտինի Արազովա (Armenian); Аразова, Изабелла Константиновна (Russian); Arazowa, Izabella; Arazian, Izabella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostov-on-Don , Soviet Union